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Mount Vesuvius, a volcano near the Bay of Naples in Italy, is hundreds of thousands of years old and has erupted more than 50 times. Its most famous eruption took place in the year 79 A.D., when the volcano buried the ancient Roman city of Pompeii under a thick carpet of volcanic ash. I think that one killed about 20,000 people. Nowadays...about 3,000,000 people live within 20 miles of Mount Vesuvius.

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@OneEye - I have no explanation. It is crazy when considering this objectively but it is certainly adds spice to life to live within 50 miles of not one, but two active volcanoes. There is just something about the place that is magnetic. To see the lava at work with the mark one eyeball is just beyond description to me.